Questions tagged [fsfreeze]

I use xfs_freeze to freeze and unfreeze my xfs filesystem: xfs_freeze -f /blahblah xfs_freeze -u /blahblah After I run the unfreeze command I want to make sure that the filesystem is not frozen for sure. This command does not return any value or…

I heard recently about fsfreeze and I'm very interested in making snapshots of my VM with VMware and get a consistent state of disk using quiescence. All my file-systems are LVM volumes, and man fsfreeze mentions: fsfreeze is unnecessary for…

On a running linux box, cached content in a filesystem, should be written to disk. "sync": with the command line sync and related system call, it can be made that data is persisted/written out to the storage device "fsfreeze": the command fsfreeze,…

tl;dr How can processes writing data to disk be temporarily stopped, so as to prevent them to screwup fsfreeze/sync? long story My question is about a process that is writing data to be persisted on disk (storage device) in a "runaway" fashion. this…